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--- Unto The Wonder - Can't believe I haven't gotten around to this news all week - Todd Haynes is reuniting with his main muse Julianne Moore for another movie! It's based on the children's book Wonderstruck (by the author of the book that got turned into Hugo)
which tells the intertwined story of two deaf children separated by
fifty years and many miles. Anybody read it? Who the hell is Julianne
Moore playing? She's good but she's not child good. Maybe I'll ask Todd
Haynes tonight when I see him do a Q&A for Safe at FSLC. (Swoon!)
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--- And Speaking of Todd Haynes his great new movie Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith's fine novel The Price of Salt, which I have been blogging about longer than any of you damn people so stop stealing my thunder, is out in a few theaters today! So if you live in a big coastal city you can maybe see it now! Here's my review. It is quite great! Anyway there are literally tons of stories on the internet about it right now, they are really making the rounds, here are just a couple -- Frank Rich's detailed piece about Highsmith and the book is fantastic. At The New Yorker Anthony Lane has more nits to pick with the movie than I do but as always his writing is rapturous enough all on its own.
Continuing on, deep breath, I haven't read this interview with Sarah Paulson yet (thx Mac) but I have read this one with Cate and this one with Rooney; the latter two are by Carol devotee David Erlich, whose affection for the film on Twitter has been fairly humorous the past couple of months, to put it mildly. Oh and at The Film Experience Nathaniel will be sharing a ton of interviews soon with the movie's cast and crew but he's whet our appetites with a fun little preview today.
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--- The Golden Mockingjay - Can you believe that The Hunger Games has never been nominated for an Oscar? That seems bonkers -- no costumes, no wigs, no nothing. Our palm Glenn Dunks goes through the spots where the films coulda shoulda at The Film Experience and now that I've seen the final film let me just say (I'll try to review it before the day is out but the day is flying by somehow so don't hold your breath) that Donald Sutherland deserves a Supporting Actor nomination dammit. Looking at Nat's predicitons for that category I dare you to compare any of those possibiles favorably to Sutherland's scary good work here. The scene in the rose garden, oh my god, is a master class. And that bloody laugh at the end! And oh god this:
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--- Dark Matters - Edgar Wright, who still hasn't begun directing Baby Driver somehow, is at least lining up his next stuff - he's going to make an animated movie! Something something about "shadows" is all they're saying. I imagine this is a ways off since animated movies always take literally forever, but we're thirsty enough for Edgar Wright anything that we'll bite.
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--- Something Special - The trailer for Midnight Special, Jeff "Take Shelter" Nichols' upcoming science-fiction flick with Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, and Kirsten Dunst, showed up online earlier this week, and it looks terrific. Such a fantastic cast, and it looks like a typically sideways glance at a genre from the sideways glancing director.
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--- Hateful Delays - This article from the New York Times on all the money that Quentin Tarantino and Harvey Wienstein are blowing on playing The Hateful Eight in 70mm at a handful of theaters across the country when it's out at Christmas still doesn't tell us where those damn theaters are and my patience grows so thin it's invisible now. The article is over a week old and it says the list was going to have been released by now and lies everything is lies. (That is the brand new poster for the movie to the left there, via.)
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. --- Mighty Frightly - One of the writers from Hannibal is teaming up with Chronicle director Max Landis for a horror anthology show for SyFy called Channel Zero - it's already been picked up for two seasons of six episodes, which will air in their programming lead up to Halloween in 2016 and 2017. Now when I read "anthology show" I thought they meant like Twilight Zone or currently Black Mirror, with a new story every week, but they apparently mean like American Horror Story, in that each set of six episodes will tell one story. So two stories total. The first season will be based on the story Candle Cove by Kris Straub. I do not know this story.
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--- And Speaking of Todd Haynes his great new movie Carol, based on Patricia Highsmith's fine novel The Price of Salt, which I have been blogging about longer than any of you damn people so stop stealing my thunder, is out in a few theaters today! So if you live in a big coastal city you can maybe see it now! Here's my review. It is quite great! Anyway there are literally tons of stories on the internet about it right now, they are really making the rounds, here are just a couple -- Frank Rich's detailed piece about Highsmith and the book is fantastic. At The New Yorker Anthony Lane has more nits to pick with the movie than I do but as always his writing is rapturous enough all on its own.
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Donald Sutherland correcting Julianne Moore with the word "Plucked" made all 18 hrs of #HungerGames movies worth every damn minute #PLUCKED
— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) November 20, 2015
. --- Dark Matters - Edgar Wright, who still hasn't begun directing Baby Driver somehow, is at least lining up his next stuff - he's going to make an animated movie! Something something about "shadows" is all they're saying. I imagine this is a ways off since animated movies always take literally forever, but we're thirsty enough for Edgar Wright anything that we'll bite.
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--- Something Special - The trailer for Midnight Special, Jeff "Take Shelter" Nichols' upcoming science-fiction flick with Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, and Kirsten Dunst, showed up online earlier this week, and it looks terrific. Such a fantastic cast, and it looks like a typically sideways glance at a genre from the sideways glancing director.
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. --- Mighty Frightly - One of the writers from Hannibal is teaming up with Chronicle director Max Landis for a horror anthology show for SyFy called Channel Zero - it's already been picked up for two seasons of six episodes, which will air in their programming lead up to Halloween in 2016 and 2017. Now when I read "anthology show" I thought they meant like Twilight Zone or currently Black Mirror, with a new story every week, but they apparently mean like American Horror Story, in that each set of six episodes will tell one story. So two stories total. The first season will be based on the story Candle Cove by Kris Straub. I do not know this story.
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--- And Finally speaking of Hannibal, Bryan Fuller and Gillian Anderson teamed up to re-purpose that helluva stinger from the show's final episode into an ad for PETA, watch it and weep for all of the creatures...
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